Baseball
The 2007 Northeast-10 Conference Coach of the Year, Bryant University head coach Jamie Pinzino enters his third season at the helm of the Bulldog baseball program.
Last season, Pinzino and his club righted the ship in his second year at Bryant, posting a 35-24 record (21-9 in conference), after a disappointing 2006 campaign that saw the Bulldogs go 18-33.
Picked to finish sixth overall in the Northeast-10 Conference Preseason Coaches' Poll in 2007, Bryant upped their stock, finishing the season third on the conference ladder. But the postseason was even more fruitful for last year's Bulldogs.
After upsetting top-seeded Franklin Pierce and second-seeded UMass-Lowell en route to a second-place finish in the conference tournament, Pinzino and his team continued on to the NCAA Northeast Regional, where they saw themselves grab another second-place finish and fall just two wins shy of a trip to the College World Series.
In their first season together, Pinzino and the Bulldogs suffered through a rough start to the year but fought their way to a fifth-place finish in the Northeast-10 Conference with a 16-14 league record. Bryant dropped its first-round conference tournament game, 1-0, to eventual tournament champion UMass-Lowell.
Prior to arriving in Smithfield, Pinzino spent one season at Assumption College, guiding the Greyhounds to an 11-28 record and 10-18 mark in the Northeast-10. Pinzino was an assistant coach at Tufts, his alma mater, for the 2003 and 2004 seasons.
Pinzino also held assistant coaching positions at Holy Cross (2002), Pomona-Pitzer College in Claremont, Calif. (1998), Westboro American Legion (1997-98), St. John's High School (1998-2002) and was the head coach for the Northboro American Legion Program (1999-2004).
A four-year varsity member of the Tufts baseball team, Pinzino helped lead the Jumbos to a berth in the 1995 NCAA Division III Regional and was a member of three ECAC Championship teams, in 1994, 1996 and 1997.
A 1993 graduate of St. John's High School (Shrewsbury, Mass.), Pinzino earned the Pioneer Award as a standout third baseman during his senior season, helping lead the Pioneers to the Massachusetts State Finals.
Pinzino graduated from Tufts University in Medford, Mass. in 1998 with a degree in history. While back at his alma mater during his coaching days, he also earned a Masters Degree in Educational Studies.
